Posted on 12/19/2010 5:06:09 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Could Michael Kinsley possibly be any more predictable? His review of George Bush's "Decision Points," appearing in today's Sunday New York Times, is precisely the smug piece of sneering partisanship you would expect to find in this paper and from this quintessential liberal MSM elitist.
As the headline indicates, Kinsley flatly accuses W of "stealing" the 2000 election. Kinsley offers no proof, but surely most of the people who will read this review require none. They take it as a matter of deep partisan faith. Speaking of faith, the former Crossfire man is mocking of Bush's. Consider this excerpt:
"[H]e stopped drinking with the help of God, who spoke to him while he was out jogging. (I make light, but this part of his story is actually fascinating, gutsy and very well told.) Thirteen years later, after he had made a quick fortune buying and selling a baseball team and then had been elected governor of Texas, God told him to run for president."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Kinsley’s sneering review of Bush memoir. Ping to Today show list.
Speaking of DADT...
The NYT is celebrating the final installation of
more of their agendae through Romney, the DNC and
bedded judges, like Margaret Marshall.
uh...once a pencil necked geek....always a pencil necked geek....
waddapuke
Terminal BDS!
Last time I checked Kinsley was so dumb that he still couldn’t figure out how it might be possible that lowering tax rates could increase revenue.
I thought Kinsley was dead. I hadn’t heard from him since he was fired as the LA Times Editorial Page Editor.
Kinsley’s always seemed like a lightweight to me. On Crossfire, he was always contentious about just about everything, but not convincing. He seems like someone who you (or he, himself) doesn’t take too seriously.
Stole it, eh?
Well, you should get down on your knees that he did. /s
Under Gore, the discredited anthropogenic global warming farce would have come to fruition.
We’d have a completely destroyed energy infrastructure and a corrupt economic trading system based not on a dollar, fiat though it is, but on some ephemeral monetary unit called a Carbon Trade Unit based on a globalist bankers wet dream of a non-sovereign based currency.
Why do all these leftys love neo-feudalism so?
Down on your knees, fellow and thank your god that Gore lost.
I am not a Bush fan, but the alternative would have been far far worse.
Kinsley lacks gravitas.
If this is what happened, then thank G-d. One can only imagine where we'd be today if AlGore had been elected president in 2000.
The body of our nation would have been so weakened by 8 years of that lunatic's ministrations that it would never have been in proper shape to resist or survive the infection that is Obama.
Kinsley’s background is so typical of the elitist left. He went to an elite private prep school where kindergarten tuition is today $18,600/yr., and then on to Harvard. I’m sure he sees himself as wanting to be compassionate and charitable and wants to help the ‘downtrodden’, but he doesn’t have a real understanding what it’s like to be one of those people who avoided being ‘downtrodden’ by hard work and sacrifice, only to be punished by the government for their success and attempt at upward mobility.
The elitist left like to think of themselves of champions of ‘the people’, but you won’t likely find them at the bowling alley rubbing elbows with those who are working hard every day for an average salary. The ‘people’ to them are those anonymous generic souls that live ‘somewhere else’ and who are all in need of the great wisdom that he and his leftist elitist friends can save them with. It’s just not reality.
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Is the NY Times still in business. I have not seen a copy for years now.
Well said, well said. The “people” are being fleeced by the elitist, know everything, they learned from a book. Most if not all of this crowd live in splendid economic circumstances. They haven’t a clue how the rest of us live or think.
President George W. Bush had the courage and will power to quit drinking. However, the Poseur-in-Chief is still puffing away in the Oval Office closet.
When Obama won over McCain, I thought there was a big positive: McCain surely would have dragged the Republican name into the mud and blurred all distinctions between right and left. Obama, at least, is very clearly left, so all can see how insane liberal rule is.
Bush trashed the Republican brand by siding with the Left as often as the Right. His vision of a helpful, partnering government was a frightening departure from the vision our Founders had. He also carried out two wars in a similarly moderate fashion: Kill the enemy, but try to get the people to love us by giving them stuff. In the end, you could put his supporters in a single room and seat them for dinner. With the Republican brand trashed, and the Democrat brand now trashed by Pelosi, Obama, Reid, et al., we have room for the ascendancy of the Tea Party and a healthy distrust of government.
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